Print of the Day!! Sat, May 14, 2022, is by Ynez Johnston (1920-2019): "Tribal Coast", color intaglio, 1964, 7/210; published by IGAS. $1,100.00.

The Print of the Day!! Saturday, May 14, 2022, is by California printmaker Ynez Johnston (1920-2019).

"Tribal Coast" is a 6 color intaglio by California printmaker Ynez Johnston (1920-2019). The platemark measures 11-9/6 x 17-7/8 inches. This impression is pencil signed, dated, editioned "7/210"?and annotated "imp" by the artist in the lower margin". It was published by IGAS (International Graphic Arts Society) and printed by the artist on a heavy antique-white wove paper that measures 16-1/4 x 22 inches. A reference for this image is IGAS, Series 60, September, 1964. Our inventory number for this image is 24121.

This color intaglio by Ynez Johnston (1920-2019) is available from the gallery for $1,100.00. Contact the gallery with any condition or other questions.

"Tribal Coast" was published by the International Graphic Arts Society (IGAS) in Series No 60, September, 1964. IGAS published a number of prints every year in editions of 210. 100 of these were sold in Europe and 100 in the US, there were 10 proofs. With this business model an artist's work could develop an international following of collectors and the many museums who subscribed to their publications.

The IGAS introduction for this intaglio quoted poet John Berry, Ynez's husband: "Dominant structures, part animal, part architectural, appear as a medium for developments of human shapes: a world of form and force, inhabited by thinking, passionate, observant beings. Fighting, lovemaking, transcendence are possible associations: the ambivalent separation and rapproachment of entities, their resolution, synthesis or unity in a perspective which envisions the total drama as the central theme, rather than the protagonist's fate."

Ynez Johnston was born in Berkeley, California on May 12, 1920. As a child, her family encouraged her artistic tendencies by enrolling her in Saturday classes at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and with excursions to the de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco. Ynez later attended the University of California at Berkeley, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1941 and the Bertha B. Taussig Memorial Award for the outstanding graduate in fine arts. Her instructors, Worth Ryder, Erle Loran and Margaret Peterson, introduced her to work of Picasso, Klee, Miro and Braque.

In the early 1940s, Johnston traveled to Mexico to continue her studies but returned to Berkeley in 1943 eventually earning her Masters of Fine Arts in 1946. In 1949, she summered in Paris and then relocated to the Los Angeles area in the fall. Finding herself without a studio or press, Leonard Edmondson, a friend from college, opened his printmaking studio to her. She experimented with intago and woodcut and began to do sculpture in 1950.

Johnston taught at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Chouinard Art Institute, California State College, University of Judaism, and Otis Art Institute. She was awarded the Anne Bremer Award in 1949, Huntington Hartford Residence in 1951 and 1957, Guggenheim Foundation Grant in 1952, Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant in 1955 and 1956, James D. Phelan Grant in 1958, MacDowell Colony Residency Grant in 1959, and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1976, 1985, and 1986. In 1992, the Fresno Art Museum honored Johnston with their Distinguished Woman Artist award and a retrospective of her work was mounted at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in 1998.

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